The fourteenth annual conference of the Society for the History ofAuthorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) will be held at the NationalLibrary of The Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek) in The Hague and inLeiden, The Netherlands, on 11-14 July 2006. The Conference will beorganized by the National Library in cooperation with the Universities ofLeiden, Utrecht, Nijmegen and Amsterdam.

Medea, the notorious infanticidal non-Greek wife of Jason, is a figure from Classical mythology who challenges the boundaries of behaviour and understanding and has proved both a creative and an intellectual challenge for countless writers, artists, composers and performing artists since Euripides and before.

We invite proposals for papers for thecross- and interdisciplinary conference:

The Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) isholding its 16th Annual Conference, entitled "Nations and their Pasts:Representing the Past, Building the Future", on Tuesday and Wednesday,March 28-29, 2006, at the London School of Economics.=20

This conference represents the first full-scale opportunity to examine =the production and circulation of religious texts within the northern =counties of England between 1100-1500. In recent years critical =attention has focused on the role played by works by the Yorkshire =hermit Richard Rolle (c. 1300-49) in revitalising lay spirituality. This =interdisciplinary event widens the scope of the investigation to =consider genres as diverse as drama and hagiography, which offer insight =into religious devotion and practices in the region.

Trajectories of Commitment and Complicity: Knowledge, Politics, Cultural =Production <<ole0.bmp>> Wednesday, 29 March - Friday, 31 March 2006 =<<ole1.bmp>> <<ole2.bmp>>=20The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) invites proposals for =the international workshop, Trajectories of Commitment and Complicity, =to be held between 29th - 31st of March, 2006 in Amsterdam, the =Netherlands. This interdisciplinary workshop will be dedicated to =exploring the concepts of commitment and complicity as they manifest =themselves at the intersections of knowledge, politics and cultural =production.

My apologies, there was a typographical error in the due date for abstracts in the previous CFP for the Wenshan Conference. The correct date for abstrats is Nov. 15, 2005. The conference date is March 11, 2006.